On Saturday, TOI had its flagship project called “Right to Excellence (RTE)” education summit which was attended by top educationists, policy experts and changemakers who discussed issues related to the Indian educational system.
“College drop-out is just a term that students give themselves when they realize they haven’t learned anything,” observed Divya Gandotra Tandon, Director of Scoop Beats Pvt Ltd and COO of ASTNT Technologies Pvt Ltd. “Besides which,” she added. (RTE) “The digital world offers all this for free”.
She then said, “Everything you are learning at college is what the market demands; improve your skills.”
Future workforce and talk about its pair skills gapformer VC IGNOU Nageshwar Rao said, ‘Talk about higher education has three aspects – knowledge-bank, skill-set and value-system.’
As people started questioning whether schools should give them skills or not the skills gap began to show up first.
NSDC’s VP (Government Projects), Rishikesh Patankar, also described it as “the difference between industry demand and supply provided by educational institutions or skilling institutes.” He went on to add that focus is shifted towards ‘future skills’.
It was named as “helping pupils in succeeding in AI times” in line with panel speakers.
